The great Syrian revolution didn’t erupt suddenly. The Syrian revolution exploded after many connotations that have been accumulating through the years in an unhealthy political environment that started with Assad the father stealing the rein of power.- The Constitution Uprising in the seventies then the events of the eighties were a form of the people’s refusal of the power monopolizing of Assad.- The Damascus Spring and the political demands associated with it didn’t last long in the face of the regime’s oppression. It ended in 2001.-The Kurds’ uprising in 2004 had a great momentum in its expression of objection to injustice and demanding the least civil rights. It was also faced with the harshest forms of oppression.- The arrest campaigns against bloggers between 2005-2006, created a sense of outrage in circles that were hoping for a margin of political and cultural freedom under the regime.- The al-Hareeka protest in Damascus on the 17th of February 2011 with its symbolic attribution challenged the regime in its center of power. The Syrians chanted “the Syrian people won’t be humiliated”.- On the fifteenth of March 2011 there was a call for a protest in the Hamidiyeh historic area in old Damascus. The bravest young men and women from all sects and regions came out to call on the regime to step down sending their hidden message in the chant “God, Syria and freedom only”. A lot of revolutionaries got arrested that day.- The mothers of the prisoners of conscious sit-in the next day near the Ministry of Interior Affairs. The silent sit-in in front of the Libyan Embassy and the arrest of the participating activists. These activists were supporting the right of other people to achieve freedom and justice.- On the eighteenth of March, the day the first dignity martyr was killed in Daraa. After that thousands of Daraa residents took out to the streets in a big revolution of dignity, protesting the crimes of the regime against humanity which stopped at nothing to respond using the cruelest of methods, even barbarically torturing the kids of Daraa.That day had a symbolic effect. It was the day that drew the attention of the world to the Syrian people and their struggle. It is a day that will be forever embedded in the history books of revolutions. It was the explosion that so many debated that it could ever happen.The Syrian revolution never seized to be almost completely peaceful for the first six months. It didn’t use arms or counter violence. It de-pended on all civil resistance methods and nonviolent protests. The violent machine of the regime was countered with demonstrations and a wide spectrum of nonviolent activism. The Syrian people were creative and came up with novel approaches, which they implemented down to their tiniest detail details, to convey their message and situation to the other Syrians, to the regime and to the rest of the world, all in the

people. The regime began to promote the ideas of terrorism, extremist groups, civil war and sectarian infighting. Today, after the elapse of two years, the Syrians have not given up hope despite the destruction that has fallen upon the country and the tragedy fallen upon its people. Those who are left are raising their voices with what is left of their energy to declare that our revolution is a revolution of people demand-ing life, to declare this in the face of the silent humanity, the systemic death, in the face of the counters of death tolls. On days characterised only by the smell of death, from underneath the shelling and destruction, from the abyss of suffering and depths of dungeons of darkness in detention centers, the Syrian people persisted with their revolution and continued their march towards dignity, towards freedom, towards justice and towards salvation, towards life.

A «Human Being’s Revolution for Life» is a Syrian campaign for four days from the fifteenth to the eighteenth of March. Its aims to document the events of the revolution over the last two years, to remember the martyrs and revive the sacrifices of the Syrian people, and remind the world about the humane values the revolution was ignited for: dignity, freedom, democracy, and social justice.